Sunday, July 07, 2013

Good
News from Russia: Russians Made Homosexual Agenda Roll Back

Dr. Scott Lively

Good news on the
homosexual battlefront is rare these days, and even when we get it, the victory
is usually in the form of a delay in the advance of a particular homosexual
goal rather than a clear defeat of their agenda. The “tabling” of the Illinois
“gay marriage” bill recently, and of last year’s sexual orientation regulations
(SORs) in Springfield MO come to mind. (Notice how there’s never an actual vote
to strike down the proposed pro-homosexual policy when our side rises up in
protest, just a delay until the progressives -- meaning regressives -- think
it‘s “safe’ to proceed).

Rarest of all is
news that the homosexual agenda has actually been rolled back. We got such news
this week about Russia, which just passed a law criminalizing homosexual
propaganda in that nation. Rather, most of us didn’t get the news, because the
coverage was weak trending toward invisible since the mainstream media can‘t
yet figure out how to spin it to the advantage of the “gays“ (but watch for
many future stories about “innocent“ activists -- i.e. professional foreign
provocateurs -- being “brutally“ suppressed by Russian authorities -- though
never a word about how the Russian policy preserves family-based society and
avoids the moral meltdown occurring in the West).

Frankly, I heard
the news only when called by a Russian TV network for comment. Their crew drove
up from New York yesterday afternoon to do the interview and filled me in on
the details. They knew to contact me because of an AP story in which I had been
interviewed before the final passage of the law. President Putin apparently
signed it into law on July 1st. Here’s that story, which is also posted on our
home page at www.defendthefamily.com.

I have enjoyed
very few actual victories in my 25 years of front-lines ministry on this
battlefield, so it is hugely gratifying to have played a role, however small,
in the enactment of this law. This ban on homosexual propaganda was one of a
few specific policies I had advocated in my 50-city tour of the former Soviet
Union in 2006-2007. Significantly, the first version of this law at the local
level was in St. Petersburg where I released my Letter to the Russian People in
October of 2007 near the close of that tour.

Here in the
United States it would not be possible to pass such a law these days because of
the way our First Amendment has been misinterpreted in recent decades by the
U.S. Supreme Court. The Founders would have had no such problem, but “free
speech” today means “pro-gay” speech (as well as such important forms of
expression as nude dancing and anime child porn) but speech pointing out the
many dangers of homosexuality is no longer protected in many cases since the
rise of so-called sexual orientation regulations (SORs) which define “anti-gay”
Bible-quotes and similar “hate speech” as illegal discrimination. Who would
have thought that the Russians would become the world’s champions of family
values (relatively speaking) while the U.S. would trash its own constitution to
normalize sexual perversion?

I’ve just
learned that the World Congress of Families will hold it’s next international
conference (WFCVIII) in Moscow next year. I would like very much to be there
for that and have started a fund to cover my expenses to get there. Starting
today, all donations not specifically designated for some other purpose through
our website at www.defendthefamily.com/help/donate.php will go into a
special WCFVIII travel fund.

I would like to
take the opportunity of that trip to suggest ways to build upon the Russian
policy and promote its adoption in other countries.

In honor of what
the Russians have done I’ve decided to finally publish our Russian version of
The Pink Swastika on our website. That project has been stalled for a long
time, even though all the chapters of the 4th Edition have been translated and
edited for publication in Russian. I need to find someone to translate the
captions on the photos and graphics into Russian but that’s the only hold-up.

I will also send
a letter of thanks and congratulations to President Putin, along with a copy of
the English version of The Pink Swastika.

I urge you to
spread the word about this important and encouraging pro-family development.

Comment by Julio Severo: Seeing the good example of
Dr. Scott Lively, why do not we contact the Russian embassy in our countries to
express our thanks and congratulations to President Putin for the
anti-homosexualist propaganda law?